Audience
3-6 year-old children and parents; all Chinese
international schools, foreigners, adults; all Chinese
teachers
Teaching concept
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Five hundred daily words have been selected
strictly, which will be commanded by children
through games. We lay great emphasize on role
of natural learning through games and
parent-child play. Meanwhile, we also keep
updating these games so that children could
Chinese vocabulary in large numbers with the
scientific method. Therefore, language input will
surely enhance their ability to produce long sentences,
laying a foundation of reading comprehension with
great efficiency.
The selection criteria of vocabulary in taught
Chinese, a kind of beautiful and well-established
language enjoys a long history. During the past
thousands of years, modern Chinese has witnessed
make progress through entertainment and apply
what they have learned to meet practical needs.
great changes. Many monosyllables have been
transformed into polysyllables.
Instead of simple pictures, we use simple Chinese
characters of national standard with Pinyin listed
above them. Children could get a good command
of them through speaking and listening, and this
point will be further emphasized in our teaching
material.
It is very effective for children to absorb large numbers
of Chinese vocabulary in a relaxed environment. There
are about three thousand words commonly used in
our daily life, which account for 97 percent of those
appearing in children’s reading. They lay a solid
foundation for language understanding and cultivate
children’s interest in reading books. With great
consideration to their cognitive characteristics and
Cards of different colors will present words of
different classed like nouns, verbs, adjectives
because colors are much more distinguishable for
children. Student’s interest could be raised if they
learn new words of the same class.
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when children will experience the fastest language
development with the strongest memorial ability.
Therefore, parents and teachers should encourage
children younger than three years old to acquire
With a growing number of exercises in
word-match and sentence-making, students
could strengthen their speaking ability through
discussion. In addition, the learning activities will
also be conducted through games. For example,
children will act in different roles in scene play
and it is really vivid and interesting for their
language learning.
Vocabulary acquisition for young children will promote
the growth of their both intelligence and reading
ability.
Chinese enlighten education takes an important role in
children’s psychological and physical development in
the future. Three to six years old are pivotal period
laws of nature in language development, the words
are also close to children’s daily life, all about
children’s living environment. At the first stage,
children will learn the Chinese name of things around
them so that vocabulary could be accumulated
gradually. Starting from simple words, children will
manage to combine them together to make full
sentences.
Enjoyable learning experience and parent-child play
with the promotion of independent study
First of all, a short-term training and teaching
demonstration will be provided for parents so that
they could get to know the basic law of language
acquisition and the rudimentary study strategy. In this
way, they could manage to create a safe, scientific,
pleasant study environment to help children read,
understand and memorize Chinese words in a
step-by-step manner.
Second, children could be encouraged to conduct the
independent study through role-play in some pleasant
drama. The vocabulary is closed to their life.
Teaching methods
1. There is only one word on each card with Pinyin
above it. So that students could memorize them
through reading or speaking, and it is of
importance to the growth of reading ability.
2. Students should have a good command of five
hundred basic words and accumulate large
amounts of related vocabulary according to
different classes.
The scientific classification method could help
students in this part. Here is the selection criteria of
five hundred words specialized for children.
The first level: use cards of different colors to present
words of different classes, like nouns, verbs and
adjectives.
The second level: words will be sub-divided. For
example, general name, household of articles, food
and animals.
The third level: The word will be further divided. For
instance, animals will be divided into fish, bird and
mammals. This will also cultivate their ability of
summary through Chinese learning.
Students will develop oral communication ability
through vocabulary practice.
Apart from the study of single word, children will
enhance their ability to make full sentences with
single words through plenty of exercises. In this way,
their oral communication ability will be strengthened.
Repeated appearance helps children understand and
command the word and its pronunciation.
Children tend to pay short-term attention to what
they are learning. Thus the repeated appearance of
word is necessary for them to understand the
meaning, the pronunciation and the glyph of the word
on the card.
7 transportation (8)
underground, planet, ship, taxi, train, station, bike, bus
16 color and shape
red, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white,
black, square, rectangle, circle, triangle, heart-shaped,
star, semicircle,
8 vegetable (17)
wax gourd, pumpkin, cucumber, lentil, cabbage,
spinach, lettuce, bean seedling, mushroom, potato,
onion, eggplant, carrot, tomato, corn, green pepper
17 position (16)
here, there, before, behind, inside, outside, up, down,
east, west, south, north, left, right, around
Nouns (382) red cards
1 general name (23)
father, mother, grandfather grandmother, father-in-law,
mother-in-law, elder brother, elder sister, younger
brother, younger sister, uncle, aunt, teacher, student,
children, driver, doctor, nurse, boy, girl, policeman.
2 body and clothes (31)
head, hair, face, eyebrow, eye, ear, nose, mouth,
tongue, tooth, hand, finger, foot, toe, leg, tummy, man,
coat, raincoat, student uniform, sport suit, skirt,
trousers, sock, shoes, hat, waistcoat, swimwear,
pajamas, slipper
3 food (38)
porridge, rice, noodles, wonton, dumpling, rice flour
rolls, siumai, egg, rice dumpling, zongzi, mooncake,
new year cake, bread, cake, sausage, French fries, hot
dog, hamburger, spaghetti, sandwich, soybean milk,
juice, milk, yoghourt, soda water, spring water, water,
tea, candy, ice cream, biscuit, peanut, raisin,
semen juglandis, chocolate.
4 household articles (49)
kitchen, refrigerator, washing machine, microwave
oven, dishes, bowl, cup, chopsticks, spoon, folks, basin,
knife, pot, kettle, toilet, bathtub, mirror, towel,
toothbrush, toothpaste, tissue, bedroom, door, lock,
bed, pillow, clock, box, cabinet, room, house, wall,
floor, ceiling, building, living room, light, window,
sofa, tea table, table, chair, bookcase, computer,
television, telephone, mobile phone.
9 fruit (15)
mango, banana, pineapple, litchi, lemon, orange,
grapefruit
10 nature (14)
river, lake, sea, pond, mountain, grassland, sun, earth,
6 toys (12)
ball, building block, plasticine, cloth doll, electric car,
kite, lantern, football, basketball, racket, badminton,
table tennis
talk, speak, listen, look, eat, drink, call, ask, walk, run,
jump, sit, kick, stand, lie, sleep, climb, take, wear,
come, go, smell, cry, open, close, love, play, fly, want,
give, sent, wash, hug, pull, hit, find, pat, ride, buy, be,
do, have
moon, star, fire
Adjectives (27) blue cards
11 weather and season (18)
fine, cloudy, rain, raindrop, wind, thunder, rainbow,
white cloud, dark cloud, snow, snowflake, typhoon, air,
spring, summer, autumn, winter
good, bad, many, few, big, small, cold, hot, long, short,
fat, thin, soft, hard, fragrant, smelly, acid, sweet, full,
hungry, tired, ache, lovely, good-looking, happy, scare,
angry
12 park (16)
tree, tree branch, leaf, woods, forest, bamboo, flower,
grass, soil, wood, rock, park, child’s slide, garden, zoo
13 animal and insect (48)
chicken, duck, goose, cow, horse, goat, pig, cat, dog,
rabbit, mouse, bear, panda, wolf, snake, monkey, fox,
squirrel, tiger, lion, gorilla, zebra, antelope, kangaroo,
elephant, hedgehog, sika deer, giraffe, tortoise, frog,
goldfish, dolphin, turtle, crocodile, shark, penguin,
swan, sparrow, parrot, swallow, yellow warbler,
woodpecker, eagle, pigeon, honeybee, dragonfly, ant,
butterfly
14 festival and time (28)
5 school (19)
classroom, whiteboard, color pen, story, game, stuff,
thing, name, schoolbag, exercise book, paper, white
paper, pencil, crayon, eraser, ruler.
Verbs (44) green cards
Spring Festival, New Year’s Day, Christmas Day, Dragon
Boat Festival, Mother’s Day, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, today, tomorrow,
the day after tomorrow, morning, noon, afternoon,
evening, year, month, day, second, minute, hour
15 number (13)
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
twenty, hundred, thousand
Mimetic words (17) orange cards
bowwow, meow, buzz, coo, wohoh, chirp, quack, whir,
dingdong, shak-shak, tick, rumble, ha-ha, wah-wah
Measure word (13) purple cards
ge , liang , zhi, shuang(pair), nian (year), jian,
kuai(block), fen, tiao, zhang, pian, ke, duo
Chinese characters refer to their mothers through the
pronunciation. After the practice for plenty of time,
the pronunciation of the word is not difficult for them
and vice versa. Therefore, their voice and listening
ability could be enhanced.
2. over one card: students could make full sentences
with single words.
Students could use words from different cards to
compose full sentences. For instance, subjects could
be replaced. Hi, dad. Hi, mum, hi, grandpa. They could
be replaced as, hi, brother. Hi, sister. Objects could
also be replaced. Dad is eating banana. Mum is eating
banana. Younger brother is eating banana.
3. conduct independent study through role play in
the scene
Students could review what they have learned
according to the different topics or class. For instance,
in terms of the word related to zoos, students could
learn names of a variety of animals as well as names
of transportation. Students are suggested to read after
parents and teachers: go to the zoo by metro and
there are tigers and monkeys in the zoo.
Parents and teachers are suggested to select the
vocabulary in taught according to different situation.
They could ask students, “What kind of fruits is on sale
in fruit shops?”
Personal noun (7) purple cards
I, you, he, she, it, we
Phrases and others (10) purple cards
thanks, hello, sorry, not at all, bye, good morning, why,
good night, no, and
Usage of word cards
1. single card: after understanding what the word
refers to, children could get a good command of the
character pattern by its pronunciation.
With the help from both parents and teachers,
students could understand what the word refers to in
their daily life. Take the card with “妈妈” as an
example, students will get to know that these two
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